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Reconstruction Vocab
Social Studies Reconstruction Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Reconstruction | The process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War |
House Divided | The comparison Lincoln used to describe the division between the North and the South |
Loyalty | Being faithful and true |
Freedmen's Bureau | An organization established by the federal government to help freed slaves |
13th Amendment | Ended slavery in all of the United States |
14th Amendment | Gave all African Americans born in the United States citizenship |
15th Amendment | Gave African American men the right to vote |
Sharecropping | a system in which landowners let poor farmers use small areas of their land, and , in return, the farmers gave the landowners a share of the the crop |
Segregation | the forced separation of the races |
Jim Crow Laws | laws that segregated African Americans from other Americans |
Carpetbaggers | the nickname southerns gave to Northerners who moved to the South after the Civil War |